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Donald Sterling scandal: NBA to hold meeting on Thursday to detail next step

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver reads a statement during a news conference, in New York, Tuesday, April 29, 2014. Silver announced that he is banning Los Angeles Clipper owner Donald Sterling for life from the Clippers organization, in response to racist comments the league says he made in an audio recording. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

In hopes of providing more clarity in officially removing Donald Sterling as the Clippers owner, the NBA owners’ advisory and finance committee hold a meeting on Thursday, a league source confirmed.

The 10-member committee will have a conference call two days after NBA Commissioner Adam Silver issued Sterling a life-time ban and fined him $2.5 million amid racially derogatory remarks he made on an audio tapes that were leaked this week through Websites, TMZ and Deadspin. Under the by-laws in the NBA Constitution, the league needs a three-fourths majority from the Board of Governors to remove Sterling’s ownership position. A league source familiar with the procedure anticipates the vote will take place “sooner rather than later.”

“The focus first was on getting the guy out,” explained a league source familiar with the NBA’s thought process regarding Sterling. “Once you get him out, you can do everything you have to do.”

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